To record screen with webcam, open the Screen Recorder on a computer, turn on the 'Webcam overlay' switch, pick a corner and camera size, then press 'Start recording' and choose what to share in the browser prompt. The camera picture, your microphone and the system audio are captured together, and the finished clip downloads as a single file when you stop.
This is a browser screen recorder with webcam — nothing to install, no account required, and the recording is assembled on your own machine rather than sent to a server. The rest of this guide walks through the exact steps, the settings that matter, and the mistakes that ruin otherwise good recordings.
Before you start: what you need
- A computer. The recorder is built for desktop and laptop screens. On a phone, a tablet or a very narrow browser window the page tells you so and shows no recorder at all. You cannot record a phone screen with it.
- A modern browser. Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all work, though which tabs, windows or screens the browser offers you to share is the browser's decision, not the tool's.
- A webcam and microphone if you want your face or voice in the clip. Both are optional. If you refuse the camera or mic permission, the screen is still recorded.
How to record screen with webcam: step by step
- Open the Screen Recorder. There is no file to add first — the page opens on a sketch of the layout, three switches and a 'Start recording' button.
- Set your switches. 'Microphone' and 'System audio' are both on to begin with. 'Webcam overlay' is off to begin with, so turn it on if you want your face in the corner of the video.
- Position the camera. With the webcam on, 'Corner' places the camera picture in any of the four corners, and 'Camera size' sets how large it appears. Do this now — every one of these settings is chosen before recording starts and cannot be changed mid-recording.
- Press 'Start recording'. Your browser asks what to share. Pick a tab, a window or your entire screen. If you turned on the microphone or webcam, the browser then asks permission for those too.
- Record. A timer and a 'Stop recording' button appear. There is no pause, so if you need a break, stop and start a new take. Ending the share from the browser's own sharing bar also stops the recording.
- Stop and review. A player appears so you can watch the clip back. Nothing is saved to your device yet.
- Press 'Download'. Only now is the file written to your disk. It comes out as .webm where the browser can record that format and .mp4 otherwise.
- Hand it off if you need to. Next-step buttons pass the recording straight to the Video Compressor, the Aspect Resizer or the GIF Maker without a re-upload.
What the Screen Recorder does and does not do
It is worth being precise, because a lot of screen capture tools promise editing features they do not really have.
| Feature | Supported |
|---|---|
| Screen capture with webcam picture-in-picture | Yes |
| Microphone and system audio mixed into one track | Yes |
| Four-corner camera placement and adjustable camera size | Yes |
| Download as .webm or .mp4 | Yes |
| Hand-off to compressor, resizer or GIF maker | Yes |
| Pause and resume | No |
| Trimming or editing | No |
| Drawing, annotation or zoom | No |
| Scheduled recordings | No |
| Resolution or frame-rate picker | No |
If you need to cut the ends off a clip or crop it to a different shape, record first and edit afterward with the Video Cropper.
Why recording locally in the browser beats upload-based recorders
Most 'online screen recorders' are not really online recorders. They run a small capture step, then push the video to a server for processing, which creates three problems.
Privacy. A screen recording often contains more than you intend: email subject lines, chat notifications, client names, a browser tab with a document open. When the recording is processed in the page and never sent or streamed anywhere, that exposure simply does not exist. Nothing leaves the machine.
Speed. Uploading a ten-minute 1080p capture takes minutes on a normal connection, then you wait for processing, then you download it again. Local recording is done the moment you press stop.
No file-size caps. Server-based tools cap length or resolution because storage costs them money. Alvseike's tools have no file-size caps. Free plans do meter usage — recording and playing back are free and not counted, while each download uses one run of the daily allowance (5 runs a day without an account, 15 with a free account, unlimited on Pro) — but the size of what you record is never the limiting factor. See /pricing for the plan details.
Common mistakes and pro tips
Choosing the wrong share target. If you pick 'Entire screen' when you meant a single window, every notification and every tab switch ends up in the video. Pick the window or tab you actually want. Sharing a browser tab also tends to give the cleanest system audio.
Forgetting the webcam is off by default. 'Webcam overlay' starts off. If you finish a five-minute tutorial before realizing your face was never captured, you will be re-recording it. Check the switch first.
Assuming system audio always works. Microphone and system sound are mixed into a single track, but system sound is only recorded when the browser provides it for whatever you shared. Some browsers and some share targets do not hand it over. If the audio matters, do a ten-second test recording and listen back before committing to a long take.
Recording without a plan. There is no pause button, so a rambling take is a wasted take. Write three bullet points, put them on a second monitor or a sticky note, and record in one clean pass.
Recording too long in one go. Long single takes are harder to reuse. Several short clips are easier to trim and easier to compress afterward. If the file ends up large, run it through the Video Compressor to shrink it for email or upload without sending it to a cloud service.
Leaving a watermark on your source material. If you are recording a demo of software that shows a logo or overlay you would rather not have in the final video, the Video Logo Remover can take a logo, text or watermark out of a video — see-through marks are undone from the video itself, and the rest are filled in by an AI model running on your device.
Recording on the wrong device. Again: this is desktop-only. If you need a phone screen recording, use the phone's built-in recorder, then bring the file to the browser for compression or cropping afterward.
Picking the right corner and camera size
This sounds trivial and is not. The four corners are not equivalent.
- Bottom-right is the safest default. Most interfaces put navigation on the left and content in the center, so a small camera bubble in the bottom-right rarely covers anything you are talking about.
- Bottom-left works well when you are demonstrating something with a sidebar on the right — code editors, dashboards, design tools.
- Top corners are usually a poor choice for tutorials because browser chrome, tabs and toolbars live there, and that is exactly where viewers look when you tell them to click something.
On camera size, smaller is almost always better. A camera picture that covers a fifth of the frame is a distraction; one that covers a tenth reads as a presenter inset and lets the screen stay the star. Set 'Corner' and 'Camera size' before you hit record, because neither can be changed once capture starts.
After the recording: a quick workflow
Once the file is on your disk, the next-step buttons inside the tool save you a round trip. Compress it if it needs to be emailed or uploaded somewhere with a size limit. Resize it if the destination platform wants a different aspect ratio than your screen. Turn a short section into a GIF if you need a silent looping clip for documentation or a chat message.
Because everything happens locally, you can repeat that workflow as many times as you like without re-uploading the same large file to a different service each time. That is the practical difference between a browser tool that runs on your machine and one that runs on somebody else's server: the second one charges you in minutes and in bandwidth on every single pass.